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From: weingart@inf.ethz.ch (Tobias Weingartner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
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Date: 15 Mar 93 09:48:18 GMT
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In article <C3w61A.8wI@sugar.neosoft.com>, peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 
> NFS is brain dead. Given my druthers, I'd dump NFS. It's fundamentally broke
> in so many ways it's not funny.
> 
> OK, OK, NFS is sure better than the client-server stuff you get on DOS
> platforms, but it's long past time to replace *it*, and the low-level
> interfaces that support it, with something more UNIX-like.

Ok, lets go to the domain (DDS) system.  Was pretty cool, and even had
decent performance.  ;-)


--Toby.